About eight years ago or so I went to the UK for a couple of weeks (met up with a bunch of fora people too). I also went to the Thoughtbubble comics convention in Leeds. I met Tom there and commissioned three postcard-sized drawings of each of the canines. They were very pretty, and I lost them immediately upon my return home.

This year my brother went to Thoughtbubble as well and again Tom was there. My brother was willing to commission another drawing for me of the same subject matter, and last night I picked it up. I love it so much! It's about letter size, by the way.

Zohar wrote:About eight years ago or so I went to the UK for a couple of weeks (met up with a bunch of fora people too).

Sounds like a great investment of your time ;-P

This year my brother went to Thoughtbubble as well and again Tom was there. My brother was willing to commission another drawing for me of the same subject matter, and last night I picked it up. I love it so much!

Wow, that is frigging fantastic.

Proverbs 9:7-8 wrote:Anyone who rebukes a mocker will get an insult in return. Anyone who corrects the wicked will get hurt. So don't bother correcting mockers; they will only hate you.

Hawknc wrote:FFT: I didn't realise Proverbs 9:7-8 was the first recorded instance of "haters gonna hate"

The missed opportunity to use an interrobang in the latest comic is making me slightly sad. (On a related note, why on earth won't my phone keyboard let me enter such an excellent piece of punctuation‽)

On the subreddit people talk about how Coyote in myth often dies because he goes too far and is then resurrected, so it's possible that's what we'll see here. He certainly seems surprised at Ysengrin's bite, but I suppose it could just be a "WTF do you think you're doing" sort of expression.

The first is that they are always 3 steps ahead, even when they look behind.

The second is that one day, they go too far and pay the price.

There's also the theme that their one blind spot is the idea that not everyone is just out for themselves. Therefore you trick the trickster by showing altruism, loyalty, kindness etc. when that's against your own interests (annoyingly I can't bring specific examples to mind here). I wonder if Ysengrin is going to surprise us here...

ETA: Whichever way it goes this storyline is awesome. I haven't been this excited about GC in a long time.

Coyote underestimated Ysingren and will be ok because trickster god but our human friends won't...

Then again, the chapter started with Coyote seeing the seething hatred in Ysingren just under the surface so he must be planning something. Just not necessarily something good. And he could still have underestimated Ysingren's hatred for him...

Proverbs 9:7-8 wrote:Anyone who rebukes a mocker will get an insult in return. Anyone who corrects the wicked will get hurt. So don't bother correcting mockers; they will only hate you.

Hawknc wrote:FFT: I didn't realise Proverbs 9:7-8 was the first recorded instance of "haters gonna hate"

That's terror-inducing? An image search for "cute anime girl smile" to find another like it produced many pages of much scarier grins ...

... and this:

What's that gesture supposed to signify?!?

Ugh. So many people tagging irrelevant images with the things I'm trying to find, so much creepy shit and Firefox's fantastic habit of humping down two screenfuls when I hold the scrollbar too long have caused me to give up.

Given the circumstances, sure, either one of them suddenly looking that happy is cause for alarm, but I don't think that grin itself is all that scary.

It's a little bit this:

... and a little bit this:

... with a lopsided smile that shows some teeth:

That's just nowhere near as scary as ... spoilered for shudder-inducing horror:

For me it was a combination of teeth showing on a wolf/dog being a sign of aggression (when not combined with submissive body language), and also, anthropomorphically, it saying to me "ha! Now I can do whatever I want", when "whatever I want" might very well include destroying the court.

The top lip being down over the front teeth makes it into a human smile, not a wolf snarl, to me. I did spend time looking for pictures of a typical, asymmetric, natural human smile, but people photograph more symmetrical mouths more often (yes, Miranda, you look lovely, but today I want to see someone else for research purposes). Here, here's a famous one:

That and these eyes look more like "excited and very happy" than "out for blood" to me.

Of course, as I said, in context either of those two canids being that excited and that happy is kind of scary, but I still think that still image is fluffy and adorable on its own.

Quercus wrote:I really need to get my comic reading systems sorted out again... it just hasn't been the same since the effective demise of RSS. I've missed nearly an entire chapter!

Demise of RSS? I use feedly and my RSS feeds seem to all work fine.

Okay, this is embarrassing. It turns out that the only thing which had died was my own RSS setup.

I kind of assumed that as more and more of my feeds stopped updating that they were being switched off by site owners. Turns out that I just needed to resubscribe to them through feedly's interface and they started working again. Not sure why the original ones had stopped working, but those subscriptions were years old and were imported from Google Reader before Google killed that, so it's not especially surprising that something would be screwy with them.